I remember being similarly super-inarticulate that evening, so enjoy that, but if nothing else just know that I greatly appreciate that comic and wish there were something even halfway-like that kind of strong-narrative comedy out now. If Archie can make a relevancy comeback, why not another comedy with an Archie-structured cast? In this era of people going back and watching shows on Hulu or whatever like ER and Friends, consider the comics equivalent and bust out that Buddy in Seattle paperback. You're welcome to come to my house and borrow mine.

FFF Results Post #500 Plus Bonus Results Posts
On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Individual Comics Publications That You Love." This is how they responded.

*****

Douglas Wolk

1. Tantalizing Stories Presents Frank in the River By Jim Woodring
2. Mister O By Lewis Trondheim
3. Never Forgets By Yumi Sakugawa
4. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Volume Four: I Kissed a Squirrel and I Liked It By Ryan North and Erica Henderson
5. You've Got to Be Kidding, Snoopy! By Charles M. Schulz

*****

Tom Spurgeon

1. Sick, Sick, Sick By Jules Feiffer
2. Hicksville By Dylan Horrocks
3. The Death Of Speedy By Jaime Hernandez
4. As The Kid Goes For Broke By Garry Trudeau
5. A Child's Life And Other Stories By Phoebe Gloeckner

1. Ed The Happy Clown by Chester Brown
2. Mad #22 by Kurtzman and Elder
3. Cannon by Wallace Wood
4. Trots And Bonnie by Shary Flenniken (sadly only collected in French edition)
5. Ray And Joe: The Story Of A Man And His Dead Friend And Other Classic Comics by Charles Rodrigues

1. The Kat Who Walked in Beauty: The Panoramic Dailies of 1920 By George Herriman
2. Forgotten Fantasy By Pete Maresca (ed.)
3. God And Science: Return Of The Ti-Girls By Jaime Hernandez
4. Mel's Story By Garry Trudeau
5. King Aroo Vol. 2 By Jack Kent

No matter how you feel about awards in general, it's nice to get to give a comics-maker or four one of the rare things we are able to give them. If they've passed on, it's nice to provide that to the family.

This is a very Vermont crowd-funder, but it caught my eye because I don't see a lot of community-based projects looking for funding this way. That's in part because many projects in this category seem toe end up being for-profit business hitting rough times and I think can't wrap around providing charitable support for a business of that nature. This is a shared-resources place, though, the kind that have been of benefit to thriving comics communities for years now. I hope we have the opportunity to make a similar space in Columbus one day.

Bonus: A bunch of good cartoonists are involved, so there are more than the usual number of fine level-gifts.